Category: Higher Education

WSU Schweitzer Engineering Hall: Maximizing Value Through Progressive Design-Build Delivery

May 29, 2025
By: Joshua Thomson and Sara Howell
Washington State University’s Schweitzer Engineering Hall will become the new cornerstone of a planned engineering and architecture district when doors open to students in 2026. As the future gateway to the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture on the Pullman campus, it’s also a model for how progressive design-build delivery can maximize value for project… read more

Project manager profile: Ashlee Blessing

May 28, 2025
By: Lewis Team
Senior project manager Ashlee Blessing hadn’t planned on building a career in construction. As an undergraduate studying interior architecture at the University of Oregon, she worked part-time for a small design-build company in Eugene that specialized in student housing and light commercial projects. During her three years there, the occasional site visit sparked something unexpected.… read more

Modernizing Huestis Hall at the University of Oregon

October 30, 2024
By: Nick Pritchard, Project Manager
Built in the early 1970s, Huestis Hall became the seventh science building at the University of Oregon’s growing Lorry I. Lokey Science Complex. For decades, it has continued to serve as a teaching and research hub for biological sciences. It's home to the University’s Institute of Neuroscience, responsible for groundbreaking research in brain plasticity, neural… read more

Inside Lane Community College’s ITEC Project

September 3, 2024
By: Tanner Perrine, Project Executive
Twenty years ago, right around the time I first entered the construction industry fresh out of the Oregon State University, I noticed a significant shift around me. Fewer and fewer young people seemed interested in getting jobs in the trades, foreshadowing a workforce labor problem that’s only gotten worse with time. With many skilled workers… read more

Progressive Design-Build Case Study: Innovation Hall

July 11, 2024
By Lewis Team
In November 2023, University of Washington Bothell and Cascadia College celebrated the opening of Innovation Hall, a shared academic building that allows for the significant expansion in STEM research and education in Washington state. The project is the first academic building in the nation shared by a community college and a university. Using a progressive… read more